How to install autojump for Fish

Autojump is a tool that can be used to jump around in the shell to frequently used directories by typing just a part of their name. It is typically aliased to j. Autojump is available as a package in the Ubuntu repositories, but that is an old version that does not support the fish shell. Installing the latest version for fish is pretty easy:

• Clone the autojump repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/wting/autojump.git

• Install autojump to a local ~/.autojump directory:

$ cd autojump
$ ./install.py

• Source the autojump.fish file in your fish configuration, by opening the file ~/.config/fish/config.fish in an editor and adding these lines:

begin
    set --local AUTOJUMP_PATH $HOME/.autojump/share/autojump/autojump.fish
    if test -e $AUTOJUMP_PATH
        source $AUTOJUMP_PATH
    end
end

• Exit the fish shell and start it again. Visit your commonly used directories with the cd command. You can now jump to these directories by using the j command:

$ cd /some/superlongdirectoryname
$ cd
$ j tory
$ pwd
/some/superlongdirectoryname

• To jump to a child of the current directory:

$ jc some_blah

• To see statistics of entries in autojump history:

$ j -s

• According to this page, there is no command to delete a path from the autojump history. You can manually delete the line corresponding to that path in the file ~/.local/share/autojump/autojump.txt.

Tried with: Autojump 22.2.4, Fish 2.2b1 and Ubuntu 14.04